Twilight curled up in her library, a thick book resting over her forehooves. There seemed to be a lot of hypnosis spells, most being quite specific in their targets or effects. She flicked back to the index and smiled. Flicking quickly, she came to temporary enchantments. "Makes foals eat their fruit… make a sibling stop punching you… ah, here we are. General hypnotic control for under twenty-four hours."

The alicorn sunk herself into study, her brain focused completely in absorbing the information about the spell and understanding how it worked. "And I should probably come up with the counter…" That, of course, meant more study and before she realized it there was no more light coming in from outside.

"Twilight, dinner!" Gel opened the door and poked his head in. "Now how did I know my alicorn wife would be in her library?" The stallion grinned wide. "Come on, you need to eat for yourself and the two little ones. There is a party tonight, too."

Reluctantly closing the book, Twilight made sure she had her place marked. "Party? Oh, Vinyl and the town coming over?" Gel nodded. "The castle just feels more… more." The well-read mare stumbled for words.

"Dash and Lyra made it through the dungeon earlier too, apparently they are calling it a tie. I didn't work out what was going on, but each was looking at the other's partner with trepidation." Gel opened the door wider for his wife. "I can take a stab in the dark and assume they were betting something on the outcome."

The two left the library and descended down to the ground floor, heading in to the dining room. There was a lot of ponies, all chatting and discussing things animatedly. Applejack spotted her partners as the two royal ponies came in. Getting up, she trotted over to Twilight to give her a nuzzle. "Ah'd ask if you slept well, but you didn't get any rest, did you?"

Twilight blushed but Gel shook his head. "Nope, she was reading all afternoon. I think we can both guess what she was studying." The stallion leaned in and gave Applejack a little nip at her neck. For her part, the earth pony only slightly blushed.

"What're we going to do, did you decide?" AJ walked with her husband and wife back to the table, all three seating themselves together. Two pink mares poked their heads out of the kitchen.

"She's here! We can begin!" One of the Pinkies pulled his head back in, quickly followed by the other. When they reappeared they had an amazing meal cooked, bringing over dishes of crunchy greens, salads, even some baked root vegetables.

"And we have something special for the birthday colt!" Pinkie exclaimed, setting a slice of cake down before Fluttershy. "We know he is too tiny to eat that yet, but I think his mom would be the best to look after it."

For the first time in her life, Fluttershy was too worn out to be scared. She curled her wing a little tighter around the foal tucked in between her and Zecora. "Thank you, Pinkie."

Twilight's attention turned to the mare opposite her at the table. "Mane, how was your day?"

Mane's attention was stolen by the new mother, but drifted back to Twilight when she heard the question. "Better than any I can remember. I helped your friend bring her colt into the world!" There was so much emotion in the former cartoon villain that she started to shed a few tears. "I almost want to ask for a rain-check on the fun tonight, if only to just have a hug. But… I am going to be super blunt. I want to feel what it is like and I worry that you may not want me back."

"You know Ah want this too, right?" Applejack gave a sly grin. "Not exactly the normal night on the farm, if ya take my drift. These two have been teaching me a fun lesson, as long as everypony is having fun, doing some new things isn't bad."

Mane May blinked a few times, taking in the advice. "By that logic, I really shouldn't turn you down." She smiled back and got a bark of laughter from Applejack.

"Then don't!" The earth ponies both nodded in agreement.

"You ready for dessert?" Pinkie Pie was practically bouncing up and down in raw excitement.

Another Pinkie Pie poked his head out and shook it. "No, silly, they are only just about to finish their main courses!"

"But I wanted to have some cake now…" The first Pinkie looked down, sad, his mane losing some of its frizz.

Clopping a hoof on the table and startling the sad pink stallion, Gel suddenly noticed something about them. His snout pulled into a smile. "How about we have dessert now?"

Nopony seemed to disagree, particularly not the reinvigorated pink stallion. A huge cake was rolled out on a trolley, and amazingly it only had one Pinkie-sized bite out of it. "Happy birthday!" Both the pink stallions exclaimed together, bouncing up and down. They got a coo of delight from the little dark-horned colt.

"Now there's a mare… two in fact, that would make great moms." Twilight watched the two make a huge fuss about the little foal. "I think, once we have had dessert, we might retire?" She looked between Gel, AJ, and Mane. Each wore a grin and each gave a little nod.

"It's been such a long day!" Twilight exclaimed, getting off the train in Ponyville, her husband and… she looked at Velvet and pondered things. "Let's go find that filly of ours and relax."

"Not feeling anything yet, I take it?" Night nuzzled his wife, then leaned across and nuzzled Velvet too, sharing a loving kiss.

"Of course not." The unicorn mare laughed at her husband. "Velvet may be an amazing pony, but she can't make me THAT pregnant so quick."

Nearing the town square, the three noticed a lot of ponies gathering together. Most were gathered around a white unicorn, Velvet took it upon herself to get answers. "Uh, hi! What's going on?" The dark, chocolate-colored earth pony blinked at seeing a changeling and an unknown couple wandering through town.

"Party up at the castle. Everypony is invited." Octavia smiled at the strange little trio. "You here for it or just passing through?"

"Here to visit our daughter." Night stepped up beside Velvet, leaning in close enough that their shoulders and flanks touched. Octavia pondered this odd action a moment and then it hit her.

"Oh! Well, you should definitely come then, most of the town attends, and Vinny always puts on a great show." The dark-colored mare gestured to the castle, clearly visible over the low roof-line of the town. "If nothing else, I am sure the Princess will put you up for a room, seems like half the town sleep up there on a Saturday night." Octavia looked over to see Vinyl gesturing to her. "Gotta run, just follow everypony!"

"What do you suppose is it? Apparently Twily lets them have a party in her castle?" Twilight squeezed her husband between herself and Velvet.

"Only one way to find out." Night found he quite enjoyed having two wonderful mares squeezing him. "Look, the crowd is moving." The three stepped off as one, the warm evening a great time to just relax and take things easy.

"You coming to the party?" An almost persian-blue mare had trotted up to the three ponies who stood out from the regular crowd. "I'm Flitter." She smiled wide and held out a hoof.

"Velvet." Smiling, the changeling bopped hooves with the pegasus. "This is my lovely wife, Twi, and our stallion, Night."

Flitter completely missed the surprised looks on the two other pony's faces, so intent was she in welcoming Velvet. "It's great to meet you! So are you coming?"

Twilight nodded. She picked up on the game the drone was playing. "We are, we were just in town looking for our filly and we found a party. I hope she is there."

"What's her name?" Flitter looked between the three, her mind performing contortions as to who is who, and what a foal by any combination of them would look like.

"Oh, there she is!" Velvet, much more adept at keeping half-truths, dashed forward, encouraging Night and Twilight to follow.

"Why didn't you tell her?" Night's spirits were high, it was hard not to be happy, with so many happy ponies around.

"Call it a hunch, but if we mention your daughter's… or your," Velvet booped Twilight on the nose, "names, everypony will get so excited and we will become the center of attention and we won't be able to just relax and have fun."

Both unicorns looked at each other. "So, Twi, how about it?" Night kissed his wife's cheek.

"I think we have fun, crash somewhere comfortable and surprise our daughter in the morning." Twilight beamed with happiness. "Assuming she doesn't spot us when we go inside."

It was a short walk and in no time the three were at the open doors to the castle and, welcomed by the dark earth pony again, entered. "Thanks, Octavia. It's great to find so many ponies just wanting to have fun." Twilight looked around, seeing odd light-spells hovering near the ceiling of the huge room, waiting to be triggered.

"We sort of crashed in one night, Princess Twilight invited Vinny back, and offered to make it a regular event. So sorry, I didn't catch your names?" Octavia could feel her lover's music already gathering, flowing into her head.

"These are my wives Velvet, and this is Twi. Sorry about being a little blunt, but we were quite surprised by this." Night introduced both mares, getting a beaming smile from both at the title he gave them.

"And this stud is Night." Twilight nuzzled Night's neck. "You seem quite relaxed about things here. Some ponies in Canterlot are a bit…"

"Like they have a cello in their plot?" Octavia brought a hoof up to cover her snout the moment she said it.

"Exactly!" Velvet exclaimed and giggled. "Although some I saw would probably be a double bass." Her reply had Octavia laughing past her hoof. "When does the music-" The first thumping note of the music assaulted everypony and a huge cheer went up. Velvet was stunned at the tune. It was a mix of six cellos, all playing different parts of the same song, with a modern back-beat and some high-frequency noise thrown in. "What… what is this?" She had to yell to be heard.

"Vinny's music!" Octavia did a spin in place, the music in her head meeting the music in the air and driving her hooves to move. "Want to dance?"

All four moved to the open area before the DJ booth, bouncing and twisting, the music making it impossible to stand still.

Spike was dancing, a stallion and a mare with him. His stallion and mare. The castle was practically bouncing but, of the titular prince and princess, no sight was seen. He was just feeling the effects of dehydration and turned for the drinks when he spotted her. "Twilight…"

The unicorn approached Twilight, she turned and smiled, still dancing. "HI!" She yelled as loud as she could and knew it could barely be heard over the latest tune.

"Twilight?" Spike shouted, then gestured to the drinks table. He got an odd look from the mare but she nodded and they both headed through into the kitchen area, where it was quieter and where there were drinks. "Twilight! It's me, Spike!"

"Spike? Twily's Spike?" Twilight Velvet was astonished and pressed forward into a tight hug with the unicorn. "I heard from Twily that you had… changed, but I couldn't really believe it. Wait, you were in Canterlot with her!"

Spike grinned. "Maybe, still getting used to things, although not all things came hard." He glanced out through the door, seeing the two pegasi he loved dancing together with abandon. "Want me to find Twi?"

Twilight shook her head. "Oh no, we can wait until morning to surprise our filly. Just relaxing, having some fun."

"With Night and…" Spike flushed the moment he said it. "I am sorry, I shouldn't pry!"

"No, no it's fine! That is Velvet, I know the name is a little… familiar, but she is a wonderful mare and… we plan to bring her into our family." Twilight smiled in a way that Spike knew, he had seen it in the mirror of late.

"That's great! Hey, you should meet Storm and Cloud, they… we got engaged!" The unicorn stallion started bouncing in place and Twilight realized she had never seen Spike quite this excited, even when he was a dragon.

"Wonderful news! Expecting yet?" It was a hunch, but Twilight could feel for these things. The blush on Spike's cheeks confirmed a direct hit. "Oh you, congratulations!"

Author's Note

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